I've been going over some notes, or suggestions rather, on how to make for an interesting PowerPoint: no more than 20 minutes for entire presentation and no more than 10 slides. Hey, instructors, I guess this doesn't apply to you then, does it? It should.
I changed my slide show. Kept half with clips and the others were boring but included the premises and conclusions . . . blah, blah, blah . . .
"What is Daylight Saving Time and why do we have it? This country started practicing DST during Ward War I to conserve on energy. This helped to cut down the cost of coal for heating and candlelight (History, 2012). But what has happened to us over a century later? Many people have a problem with changing their sleep patterns.
"Researchers have found several people complaining of headaches. One study found a 10% increase in heart attacks on the Monday and Tuesday following the Sunday in which people “spring ahead”. There has also been an 8% increase in strokes (Strickland, 2018). Productivity among employees seems to go down. This is what many of us look and feel like when we are trying to adjust to the time differences (Top 3, 2018).
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| should have changed last premises to say: Adjusting the clock every six months |
| is not good for sleeping patterns | but kept for example in the 3rd slide |
"We have 24 hours in each day. Setting the clocks ahead seems like an attempt to cheat us out of an hour. So that first Sunday feels like only 23 hours. But when we set our clocks back in the fall, we have a Sunday with 25? That extra hour does not make up for lack of sleep during daylight. It doesn't make up for ailing health (Feltman, 2015). If someone were to invent a way to take that extra hour of sunlight and apply it to the winter, then I would be impressed. But the hours of daylight that we have in the summer do not carry over to the hours of darkness that we have in the winter. The amount of daylight is always the same whether the clock reads 6:00 in the morning or if it reads 5:00. We need to keep the hours of the clock consistent to what our bodies believe (Dunning, 2009).
"Why wouldn’t we want to keep DST? One reason would be to promote safety. Children on their way to school can see be seen easier which cuts down on the number of pedestrian accidents which take place during darker hours (Holodny, 2015). There are fewer traffic accidents as drivers are able to better notice one another (Top 3, 2018). And there is less crime. And why would crime rates be down? People driving home during daylight hours may discourage perpetrators as they will be easier to recognize. More people outside accounts for more witnesses (Holodny, 2015). It is said that extra hour of sunshine promotes positive activity (Feltman, 2015). Perhaps the criminals enjoy the light also and would rather be out enjoying the sunshine than committing crimes. Just a thought.
"There are statistics given on each side of the argument. There are also fallacies which may seem illogical or unsound to one’s reasoning (Bearup, 2015) Here, I have given two examples, and hopefully, I have attached the correct name to each. The con premises refers to adjusting the clock. Of course, the very notion of “adjusting one’s clock” by itself does not make us unhealthy; rather the constant cycle of interrupting sleeping patterns is what would account for unhealthiness.
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| referenced PRO fallacy, but used my own fallacy to explain the CON I still don't know the accuracy of providing the correct name of fallacies |
"For the pro, I chose the phrase about crime: Since more crime is committed in the darkness, daylight savings will provide more light in which crime will not be committed. The keywords here are “might” and “ probably”. Statistics have shown that more crime takes place in the summer than in the winter (Dahl, 2012). I have noticed that both sides give similar reasons for why we should or shouldn’t have DST. Is it a fallacy to say that each side is correct? Let me post another argument for you.
"From the time I was in elementary school I had always been told that DST was an agriculture thing. Everybody in the entire world had to adjust their clocks so that farmers could get their work done - or so I believed. It was not until I started doing research for this project that I learned that farmers were opposed to DST. Just as with our bodies unable to adjust to the time difference, cows don't adjust their bodies according to the time on the clock.
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| note each sentence, crossout, and clip were brought in one at a time |
"They will milk when they are ready to produce. That extra hour of sunlight isn't going to change that. And because Bessie and friends won't produce at the given time, milk does not leave the farm until an hour later causing a chain reaction of one-hour delays for all other businesses involved (Feltman, 2015). But not all farmers are dairy farmers. What about the farmers that rely on crops? Crops can be picked right after the sun has dried the dew. Moving and operating equipment seems like it would be easier to do in sunlight. Again, safety reasons (Dunning, 2009)"
I had noticed that I had given a reference that was not accurate. I searched through my notes for the correct reference, but could not locate the article and so typed in some keywords and found even more references and statistics to prove why the crime rate was higher during daylight - again, no statistics found to back up the pro side. In fact, the only statistic I could find attached to the pro was saving 2% - 4% on electric and/or gas, with the con side saying the spending had raised 2% - 4%. Seriously? The amount is NOT worth my LOSING sleep and RISKING health. Come on!
I did not look up what the ratio of accidents in the summer are compared to the "darkness" but had heard this Memorial Day Weekend that it was one of the deadliest times for traveling on the road. Wow. Memorial Day takes place during DST. Did the "pro" seekers take that into account when they said daylight promotes safety? I think most of the "pro" arguments are fallacies (but then again it's probably a fallacy on my part to write it that way.)
One slide that I would have liked to do for fun - which was really not pertinent to the slide presentation, but an interesting fact about DST. George Vernon Hudson was a scientist from New Zealand who had proposed the idea of DST so that he could study bugs. His proposal was for a two hour set back. Can you imagine? The idea of two-hour change every six months beats William Willett's (a British builder) idea of having to adjust the clocks twenty minutes for each Sunday of a specific month. That seems like a lot of work! On the other hand, it might be easier for us to adjust our sleeping hours by twenty minutes as opposed to an hour or two.
I would have brought in my slides and pictures one at a time concluding that all of our lives may be upset because some guy wanted to look at bugs.
I incorporated my slide of Utah and Arizona - though not in it's entirety. The mapping of the standard/daylight/standard may not be accurate, but it still proved my point. Roland said I shouldn't have that many clips on one slide anyway. But it was to illustrate the confusion.
"Daylight saving upsets the farmers, Amtrax, the airlines, sleeping patterns. I mean take a look at this: don’t forget to set your clocks one hour ahead at 2 a.m. What???? I have to set my clock to remind me to set the clock and lose more sleep! Is that confusing? Is there too much activity going on for just one slide? Your eyes don’t know where to focus? Maybe you have a headache? This is how I feel about daylight saving time. And it’s not just me. I know many people who feel the same way."
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| each of these clips would have been brought in one at a time before the entire screen was cluttered |
good sources for daylight policy found here and here along with all my other references from all slides (gosh, aren't you thrilled?)
